An Egg, Just a Regular Egg, Is Instagram’s Most-Liked Post Ever
It seems the race to become the most-liked Instagram post has been won by an egg. Looking closely at the egg we will discover there’s nothing special about the egg. Seems like a fine egg. But regardless, more than 25 million people have liked it and in the process, it dethrones Kylie Jenner’s birth-announcement post.
The Egg which was posted on Jan 4 by an unknown user with the account only identified as EGG GANG, and it’s the only post from that profile. We don’t yet know who’s behind it, but we’re sure they’re really proud of this monumental achievement, no one even knows why it was posted or if it was posted with the intention of setting a record on social media which has actually worked.
No one has a grand perspective on why this happened maybe we should simply assume that sometimes, the will of the internet just bends in peculiar ways, and in this case, the internet decided it was going the egg’s way but that does not stop the scoff at the cultural significance of the egg.
Last year’s top television show in the United States, “Roseanne,” averaged 20 million viewers per week. If we consider this number, if all those who liked the photo created a new city, it would be the world’s second-largest, beating Shanghai not to talk of this egg’s fans whose population have passed that of Australia.
This is not the first time that internet users have shown a thirst for chaos, In 2017, the internet coalesced behind Carter Wilkerson, a 16-year-old high school student who set a Twitter record for retweets after asking Wendy’s for free chicken nuggets. (He was recently dethroned by a Japanese businessman, under the handle @yousuck2020, who got more than five million retweets when he offered about $9,250 to 100 random people who retweeted him.)
With the favor shown on this lighthearted gag, several meaningful record holders has been displaced even the comments on Ms. Jenner’s birth announcement, now stand as Instagram’s second-most liked post, this has prompt the egg’s supporters to taunt her using the egg emoji or simply the word “Egg.”
In response, Ms. Jenner posted a video of herself cracking a similar-looking egg on the pavement.
“Take that little egg,” she wrote.
As if this was not the end of the Egg pandemonium, on Monday evening, the world-record egg-posting account, hinted at a mysterious Phase 2 of the egg plan where it was stated on Instagram that “it doesn’t end here,” and that “we’re only just getting started.”
“This is a madness,” the person behind the account wrote. “What a time to be alive.”
Although this news does not in any way make sense, but surprisingly, on Sunday night, a photo of an egg, orange and lightly freckled, beat out Kylie Jenner’s birth announcement and is now the most-liked Instagram post ever.
This shocking revelation brought about questions like is the egg encrusted in diamonds? Does the egg have a popular YouTube channel no one has ever heard of? Was a sexy celebrity holding the egg? But the answer to these questions is Capital NO. None of the above. It’s just an egg and here’s the egg.
I hope you’ve seen the egg, that’s the egg more than 25 million accounts have liked as of Monday, 14th January 2019 and it is still gaining likes at a rapid pace.
This shocking revelation brought about questions like is the egg encrusted in diamonds? Does the egg have a popular YouTube channel no one has ever heard of? Was a sexy celebrity holding the egg? But the answer to these questions is Capital NO. None of the above. It’s just an egg and here’s the egg.
I hope you’ve seen the egg, that’s the egg more than 25 million accounts have liked as of Monday, 14th January 2019 and it is still gaining likes at a rapid pace.
The Egg which was posted on Jan 4 by an unknown user with the account only identified as EGG GANG, and it’s the only post from that profile. We don’t yet know who’s behind it, but we’re sure they’re really proud of this monumental achievement, no one even knows why it was posted or if it was posted with the intention of setting a record on social media which has actually worked.
No one has a grand perspective on why this happened maybe we should simply assume that sometimes, the will of the internet just bends in peculiar ways, and in this case, the internet decided it was going the egg’s way but that does not stop the scoff at the cultural significance of the egg.
Last year’s top television show in the United States, “Roseanne,” averaged 20 million viewers per week. If we consider this number, if all those who liked the photo created a new city, it would be the world’s second-largest, beating Shanghai not to talk of this egg’s fans whose population have passed that of Australia.
This is not the first time that internet users have shown a thirst for chaos, In 2017, the internet coalesced behind Carter Wilkerson, a 16-year-old high school student who set a Twitter record for retweets after asking Wendy’s for free chicken nuggets. (He was recently dethroned by a Japanese businessman, under the handle @yousuck2020, who got more than five million retweets when he offered about $9,250 to 100 random people who retweeted him.)
With the favor shown on this lighthearted gag, several meaningful record holders has been displaced even the comments on Ms. Jenner’s birth announcement, now stand as Instagram’s second-most liked post, this has prompt the egg’s supporters to taunt her using the egg emoji or simply the word “Egg.”
In response, Ms. Jenner posted a video of herself cracking a similar-looking egg on the pavement.
“Take that little egg,” she wrote.
As if this was not the end of the Egg pandemonium, on Monday evening, the world-record egg-posting account, hinted at a mysterious Phase 2 of the egg plan where it was stated on Instagram that “it doesn’t end here,” and that “we’re only just getting started.”
“This is a madness,” the person behind the account wrote. “What a time to be alive.”
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